LARA BINGLE PREPARES FOR HER DWTS DEBUT

She's been training eight hours a day for weeks and has watched Black Swan plenty of times, but Lara Bingle believes any toe tapping mastery that comes with her Dancing With The Stars debut on Sunday will be a fluke.

Catching up with good mate Teresa Palmer at Kym Ellery's much-hyped fashion show yesterday, she said she was struggling to get the moves to her first dance down pat.

"It's been hard, much harder than I thought it would be," she said.

"All I've been doing is training - the schedule is crazy.

"Whenever I get a move down it's been a fluke and I haven't been able to do it again."

With a stint on Dancing On Ice and childhood dance lessons under her belt, more viewers than normal are sure to tune in for the season premiere to see if Bingle will bungle.